General Information

Making an Appointment

Should you wish to make an appointment to see the doctor during his consultation times please ring the surgery between 9.00am and 11.30am or between 2.00pm and 3.30pm. Appointments should be made for only one patient. Urgent cases will always be accommodated. Children under 16 years of age must be accompanied by an adult.

Home Visits

Home visits are restricted to those patients who are too ill to travel. It is requested that a patient requiring a home visit should telephone the surgery before 11.00am to enable the doctor to plan his rounds according to their locality and/or urgency.

Emergency

In an emergency please telephone the surgery where the receptionist will inform the doctor immediately. Be prepared to give as full a description as possible of the symptoms and if necessary a clear route to the emergency. See the ‘out of hours’ page for emergencies outside of normal surgery hours.

Disabled Access

The surgery premises have suitable access for disabled persons with provision for disabled parking close to the surgery entrance.

Data Protection Act

All patient records are kept on a computer database which is confidential and secure. Patients have the same rights as any other person under the Data Protection Act, and can view their own medical record if so requested.

Clinics

Ante-Natal

Before making an appointment for the ante-natal clinic do confirm your pregnancy with the doctor! He will then make the necessary arrangements for you to see a district midwife and to inform the local hospital.

Child Health

This clinic is attended by the doctor and the health visitor and reviews child progress and appropriate immunisations.

Other…

Family Planning, Well-Person, Asthma, Diabetes etc are dealt with on an individual basis but some useful information can be obtained from the links below.